John Grabowski is a Principal Applications and Marketing Engineer in the Power Systems Group of ON Semiconductor, Ann Arbor, Mich. He joined ON (formerly Fairchild) in 2007 after a 30-year career at the Ford Motor Company Research Laboratory. He has been involved in circuit and software design as applied to electric-, hybrid electric-, and powertrain-related automotive applications. More recently, his group is active in advancing the application of high-power semiconductors for automotive electrification.